Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
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Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
Port au Port French Shore
A peninsula where French is still spoken at the kitchen table.
The Port au Port Peninsula, connected to Newfoundland's west coast by a causeway at Stephenville, is the heart of the island's French Shore. Communities such as Cape St. George, Mainland and Black Duck Brook retain French language and Acadian traditions dating to the French fishing presence on these coasts, celebrated along the region's French Ancestors Route.
How to get there
The Port au Port Peninsula, connected by causeway at Stephenville: drive the French Ancestors Route loop around the peninsula through Cape St. George, Mainland and Black Duck Brook.
Fact
Where that comes from
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road
